We talk too much about the economy and underestimate how important sovereignty is to Leave voters, writes London4Europe Committee member Michael Romberg. The next post in the series shows how they can really take back control: all the political parties have made relevant manifesto commitments.

The survey then asked Remain voters to rank these four choices in their order of importance to Leave voters. The order was the same but Remainers overweighted immigration and “teach politicians a lesson” and underweighted sovereignty.

The survey asked Remainers for their own top issues:

Economy

Workers’ rights and environmental protection

UK should not abandon partners

Believe in the European project

Leavers were pretty accurate in their assessment of what motivated Remainers, though they overstated attachment to the European project.

One has to be careful with polls. They are very susceptible to the exact phrasing and to the options presented. So while the relative importance of immigration and sovereignty seems reliable I am less convinced by the low marks for the rather dismissively phrased “I wanted to teach British politicians a lesson”.

Nonetheless, there are some clear lessons.

There must have been real unhappiness that led electors to vote for such a big change. The EU has never been a particularly salient issue for most voters. So most of the unhappiness will have come from UK issues.

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